Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts

This New Emmy-Award Winning Entrepreneur Knows How to Get To (and On) Sesame Street

Monday, September 21, 2009

After working in children's television for nearly 10 years, most notably  creating, producing and writing for:
  • an award-winning series of animated shorts for "Sesame Street"
  • Bill Cosby's Emmy-winning Nick Jr. series "Little Bill," and "Whoopi's Littleburg," (as lyricist)
  • a series of specials also seen on Nick Jr., last month
...Eric Weil (C'97. UTV-13 News, The Practical Penn (Restaurant Reviews) won an Emmy.

And just being nominated was a total surprise...

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They Roasted Bob Saget at the Friars Roast!

Friday, August 15, 2008


Back in June I reported that Ryan Levin (C'98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C '97, Without a Net) had co-created a new animated Comedy Central web series for Benny: Escaped Convict.

Now I've got news that their animated Benny character just roasted Bob Saget at his recent Friars' Roast! Check out the clip above for this funny, not-safe-for-work clip!

Between the both of them, Ryan and Nye have worked on some pretty big movies and TV shows.

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TV Writer and Animator Alumni Team Up for Comedy Central Series

Monday, June 23, 2008

Ryan Levine & Nye Warburton (l to r): Ryan Levin (CAS, '98) & Nye Warburton (C'97)


And here's another example of alumni who knew each other at Penn and continued working together to create some great projects...

Ryan Levin (C '98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C '97, Without a Net) have co-created a new animated Comedy Central web series for Benny: Escaped Convict.

This 4-episode web series will air on Comedy Central's Atom TV on June 23 (2 am!), and then launch on June 26 on Comedy Central's new website here.

The series follows Benny's adventures as he tries to elude the fuzz and avoid going back to the slammer.

Per Ryan, "Our goal is to continue Benny as a web series, with the hope of eventually developing it into a TV series. The future of Benny rides on the success of the webisodes, so please, check em out and pass them along."

Be sure to listen for another Penn alum, Vanessa Mizzone (C'99), who voices a variety of characters in the series.

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Trying To Study?: Don't Watch This!

Friday, May 9, 2008

Hey Day came and went and now the undergrads are studying for finals and are faced with all sorts of entertaining distractions ...like this post.

I saw this humorous Penn student claymation film about a kid who is trying to study but gets distracted by ...a squirrel.

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His "Foray" into Characters and Camera Movements

Monday, April 7, 2008

Brendan MarnellIn addition to "The Lift" and "Ephemera", Brendan Marnell (C'05) has now sent us yet another animation he created during his senior year at Penn.

Per Brendan, "'Foray is more of a formalist exercise than anything else. I focused on designing and rigging characters, scale relationships, and camera movements."

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This is a very cool video and the colors and vibrancy reminds me of one of those Dali paintings like the one you see below.

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A Film Inspired By The Secrets of The South Street Bridge

Monday, February 25, 2008

A few weeks ago, I showcased animator Brendan Marnell's (C'05) "The Lift", an animated short based on the theme of "leaving college".

Today I wanted to share Ephemera, another great film Brendan did during his senior year at Penn.

Per Brendan, "It [Ephemera] was inspired by an experience 'discovering' a series of rooms built into the support structure of South Street Bridge. The walls were covered with layer upon layer of really great graffiti, and I could see people had been using it as a hangout for a long time. I tried to return to the spot a couple weeks later, but the entrance had been cemented shut."

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His video metaphor for leaving college

Monday, February 4, 2008

There certainly are a good number of digital animations coming out of Penn these days.

Brendan Marnell (C'05) created a very cool short called "The Lift" for his Fine Arts thesis project from his 2005 senior year.

Per Brendan, "It's a short animation about a character leaving the world he knows to enter a future he cannot predict. He faces rejection, but ultimately finds a path for himself. Looking back, I think it has a lot more to do with my own situation of leaving school than I realized at the time."

Can you see this in the video?

Brendan currently works as an animator and graphic designer outside DC.

Click here to check out Brendan's "The Lift"

...Reminds me of another video I posted about a few months ago having to do with graduating from college.

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